How does cpanel-based web hosting operate?

For your info, it's good to be aware that most of the cPanel site hosting offerings on the present web hosting marketplace are provided by a very unsubstantial business segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) named reseller hosting. Reseller hosting is a kind of a small-size marketing niche, which generates an enormous amount of different web hosting brands, yet providing precisely the same services: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everyone. Why? Owing to the fact that at least ninety eight percent of the web site hosting offers on the entire webspace hosting market supply one and the very same service: cPanel. There's no diversity at all. Even the cPanel site hosting prices are identical. Very similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service almost no other webspace hosting platform/web site hosting CP choice. Thus, there is simply one single fact: out of more than 200k web site hosting brands in the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

Two hundred thousand "site hosting suppliers", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly dubbed

The website hosting "diversity" and the web hosting "offers" Google shows to all of us come down to merely one solution: cPanel. Under hundreds of 1000's of different website hosting brand names. Suppose you are merely an ordinary person who's not very well acquainted with (as the majority of us) with the web page development procedures and the webspace hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domains and web portals . Are you prepared to make your hosting selection? Is there any hosting option you can decide upon? Of course there is, today there are more than 200,000 web site hosting distributors in existence. Formally. Then where is the problem? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these more than two hundred thousand unique web site hosting brands worldwide will give you literally the same cPanel site hosting CP and platform, branded in a different way, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how big the diversity on the current webspace hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a gigantic strike of luck. There is a less than 1 in 50 chance that a phenomenon like that will happen! Less than one in fifty...

The strong and weak points of the cPanel hosting solution

Let's not be merciless with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and perhaps satisfied all website hosting industry preconditions. To cut a long story short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just one domain to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Predicament No.1: A stupid domain name folder configuration

If you have two or more domains, however, be ultra careful not to remove fully the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each new hosted domain name, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domains are quite simple to delete on the web server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very well known public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Decide for yourself how excellent cPanel's domain folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting puzzled? We positively are!

Weak Point No.2: The same e-mail folder system

The electronic mail folder structure on the web server is precisely the same as that of the domain names... Making the very same error twice?!? The sysadmin guys strongly enhance their belief in God when tackling the electronic mail folders on the email server, hoping not to bungle things up too gravely.

Downside Number 3: A sheer deficiency of domain name administration user interfaces

Do we need to point out the entire lack of a contemporary domain management user interface - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois details, shield the Whois details, alter/create name servers (DNS) and Domain Name System resource records? cPanel does not provide such a "contemporary" interface at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An unforgettable one, we want to point out...

Weak Side Number Four: Many login locations (min two, maximum three)

What about the need for another login to utilize the billing, domain name and tech support administration interface? That's apart from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel webspace hosting supplier. Occasionally, depending on the billing tool (especially developed for cPanel exclusively) the cPanel web hosting firm is utilizing, the ardent users can end up with 2 additional login locations (1: the billing/domain administration interface; 2: the trouble ticket support menu), winding up with a total of three login locations (including cPanel).

Weak Side Number 5: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to get to know... promptly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than one hundred and twenty sections inside the web space hosting Control Panel. It's a fantastic idea to pick up each and every one of them. And you'd better get acquainted with them briskly... That's quite insolent on cPanel's side.

With all due recognition, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel website hosting companies:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Note that one too...